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Mengi: The most noble venture is to serve...
2008-04-21 10:38:00
By Bilham Kimati
The venture of joining hands to help humanity and the underprivileged is the most noble thing in the world and the biggest drive to translate into action the conceived mind to serve.
The Executive Chairman of IPP Limited, Reginald Mengi, made the remarks in Dar es Salaam on Saturday night when addressing members of the Lions Club of Dar es Salaam Pwani on Lions Worldwide Induction Day. During the occasion six new members joined the club after taking the oath of allegiance.
Mengi who graced the occasion said Lions Worldwide Induction Day was a wonderful worldwide event that celebrated Lionism and welcomed new talented people into the association with a motive and commitment to serve others.
``Lion`s Worldwide Induction Day is a tribute to the strength and importance of Lions clubs all over the world as they increase public knowledge and demonstrate the importance of Lionism in helping and serving the less fortunate of the world,`` he said.
He commended Lions Club of Dar es Salaam Pwani for significant contributions to the community and mentioned some of the recorded achievements that include emergency services at Kwanga`ndu Village where hundreds of people were rendered homeless during a fire outbreak, lunch party and health care training at Upanga children’s remand home, Dar es Salaam to render remandees feel homely.
Others include diabetes camp at Lugoba Health Care, Chalinze in Coast Region, where not only testing and medicines were provided but residents were also counseled accordingly.
Another outstanding support to the community was the Eye camp at Makurunge Village in Bagamoyo District where spectacles and medicines were provided.
``Helping others is the best way to be thankful to God for what we are. What we have is by the grace of God, and giving to others is a culture that we should all embrace to serve society.
Lions Club of Dar es Salaam Pwani under its President Shakil Ansari has done a great deal in this regard. It is possible for philanthropists to live forever in the hearts of people even after physical death,`` Mengi clarified.
For his part, the Vice District Governor, Lion Abdul Majid Khan, said Lions Club was started in 1917 by a businessman in Chicago and has since then grown dramatically to have a total of 1.3 million members around the world.
He said Lions Club International, the abbreviations of Liberty, Intelligence, Ours Nations Safety (Lions) was today recognised as the world`s largest growing organisation.
``As Lions, we give our time, talent and energy for the improvement of those people who are underprivileged members of our society. This is where our motto `we serve` defines our character as those people who are conscious of humanitarian principles,`` Lion Khan said.
Asking members why they joined the Lionism movement, he said the aim was to become part of the organisation which crosses all the barriers to serve humanity and get the deep satisfaction of helping the less fortunate members of the society.
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